12 things I learned after living for 12 months in Finland
When I was a teenager in my home country, Bangladesh, perhaps the only piece of information I knew about Finland was that it is the country where Nokia phones were made.
Nokia 1100 and 3310 — two of the iconic phones made by the company — sold like hot cakes in Bangladesh back then. Nokia 3310 was widely hailed by its users, especially for its long battery life.
After doing my bachelor’s in electronics and telecommunication engineering in Bangladesh, I worked as a journalist for over 3 years before coming to Finland to pursue a master’s degree in wireless communications engineering at the University of Oulu in 2016. Even though my field of study is technology, my passion is writing and I now work as a dishwasher in different Finnish restaurants in Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa. If you find this divergence surprising, let me tell you that I also find it the same every so often.
This, however, is life for me at this moment.
Following are the 12 lessons I learned after living in this Nordic country for a year.
